Wokeness, paired with unhinged hatred of President Donald Trump, can infect even a respected filmmaker's work. According to Jonathan Barth, associate professor of history at Arizona State University, ...
Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual projects. That’s because he doesn’t really make subpar documentaries, although ...
The newest Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution places a big emphasis on the role of Native Americans in the historical event, but some are accusing Burns of trying to re-write history.
"The American Revolution" features Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Michael Keaton and many more top names as voice actors. The docuseries was 10 years in the making and involved a massive ...
The Leo Strauss Letter That Previewed a Modern-Day Divide The All-American Game The Iroquois confederation wasn’t even a democracy. Leaders were selected by women elders, whose status was hereditary.
Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...
New Jersey’s landscape has taken center stage in Ken Burns’ "The American Revolution." The ongoing PBS series portrays the Garden State as the defining battleground of the conflict’s lowest points and ...